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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 30, 1941,
RECONSTRUCTION IN PEACE
NO CHANGE IN
Mr. Anthony Eden Outlines Britain's Proposals
System Of Free Economic Cooperation
"THE ECONOMIC REORGANISATION OF EUROPE WILL NOT BE EASY BUT WE WILL NOT SHIRK OUR OPPORTUNITY OR OUR RESPONSIBILITY," SAID MR. ANTHONY EDEN, SECRETARY OF STATE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IN A SPEECH AT THE MANSION HOUSE IN LONDON Y ESTERDAY IN WHICH HE OUTLINED BRI- TISH PLANS FOR POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION.
"The British aim will be to free the post- war world from want. It will be our wish to work with others to prevent the starvation period which followed the last war and the fluctuation of foreign exchange and market prices.
"We shall seek to achieve this in ways which will interfere as little as possible with the proper liberty and economic system of each country. In a system of free economic cooperation Germany must play a part.
"BUT HERE I DRAW A FIRM Take for the betterment of man's DISTINCTION. WE MUST Int upon the earth." NEVER FORGET THAT GER. MANY HAS BEEN THE WORST MASTER EUROPE HAS EVER KNOWN. FIVE TIMES SHE HAS
Roosevelt Doctrine
PLAN FOR NEW
U.S. POLICY IN FAR EAST
The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, told pressmen yesterday there was no change in United States policies or relations regarding Japan.
Mr. Hull made this statement in response to questions concern- ing President Roose- velt's omission in his broadcast of any men- tion of Japan.-Reu- ter.
EUROPE TRANSOCEAN
(By Reuter's Staff Reporter)
ACTIVITY IN
New hope for the people BUENOS AIRES
of Europe was offered by
DAYLIGHT SAVING FOR U.S.?
Mr. Harold Ickes, U.S. Secretary of Interior, at his press conference yes- terday advocated nation- al daylight saving time.
He also suggested America may have to resort to the restricted use of electricity and institute petrolless Sundays in order ineet the shortages of power and ofl.
to
Commenting on the restriction of electricity, Mr. Ickes declared: "It is more Important Lo make aluminium than to have night baseball." (Referring to the popu- larity of floodlit professional base- ball games).
Mr. Ickes said the oil pro- blem was strictly one of trans- portation owing to the transfer to British service of one-fifth of the American tanker flost.
Mr. Ickes' comments were made i simultaneously with a statement by an official of the Federal Pow- er Commission who foresaw "per- haps history's most serious" emer- gency in power supply. ---Reuter.
June 4 to testify in cunnection with the activities of the Trans- Mr. Anthony Eden when A group of 10 deputies has ocean News Agency and mea- been requested by the Argentine¦sures the police have taken lo spoke of Britain's Minister of Interior to be pre-¦ counteract Nazi prepaganda. VIOLATED PEACE AND SHE velt's speech was the declaration plans, already in process sent at the Congress session on Reuter.
MUST NEVER BE IN A POSI TION TO PLAY THAT ROLE AGAIN,"
Mr Erlen added that the Bri- tish terms would be designed to prevent a repetition of these Ger- man misdeeds.
The Foreign Secretary began by welcoming President Roosevelt's broadcast which he described BS momentous. He sald that the President had pointed the way to secure the foundations of the world and had accomplished great act of faith.
a
Brutally Thorough Returning to Britain's post-war reconstruction. plans, Mr. Eden
said:
The keynote of President Roose-he
that the national existence of free
tions must ultimately depend of completion, for econo- upon the freedom of the seus. mic and social reconstruc- That applied with equal force totion immediately after the British Empire.
the cessation of hostili- ties.
The speech was taken by an audience of several hundred
President Roosevelt's broad. cast was momento is and by his words the President had given expression to the fixed deter mination of the most powerful | London businessmen in the Lord nation on earth.
Mayor's residence at Mansion House, in the City, where Mr. Referring to Iraq. Mr. Eden Eden spoke as a direct answer sad that since the return of the to Nazı talk of a "new economic Regent to Iraq a few days ago; order" for Europe.
the Regent had received inmun- ! Mr. Eden sought to show clear- erable messages of loyalty andly that,
support from all over the country. FIRST, GERMAN PLANS FOR
EUROPE'S REORGANISATION Many of Raschid Ali's follow-] WOULD MERELY ENTAIL ers had already fled.
MORAL AND ECONOMIC SERFDOM FOR NATIONS, AND
"I hope therefore that very, THAT, Soon we shall have rid Iraq of Second, In any case, only the any this self-constituted dictator
British Empire and the countries
and as we have no designs of any kind of North
South
There has never been thing so brutally thorough Hitlerism, No country safe until this system is smashed. The Nazi is building up against
will be against the independence of Iraq."
himself a flood of hate unparallel- Syrian Aspirations
ed in force and volume and when Reaffirming the British Govern- the dam bursts it will
sweepent's Kreat sympathy with Hitler and his gang away: Gestapo, Syrian aspirations for indepen- Quislings and satellites and much dence, Mr. Eden said many Arab else besides.
Thinkers desired for the Arab
Wr
"Every German in his heart must know and fear this. cannot now foresee when this will come but this German machine may break suddenly and without warning.
"The reckoning will Indeed be wide and fierce.
Pooling Of Resources
"Only the countries of the Bri- tish Empire and her allies, with the United States and South America, are in a position to carry out
а policy of reconstruction, When this comes we will have to make financial adjustments on the widest possible basis and we shall also develop international CX- change and trade.
POST-WAR AIMS DEBATE IN COMMONS
SIMULTANEOUSLY with Mr. Anthony
Eden's speech at Mansion House yesterday, America the House of Commons, on the motion to ad- would be in a position to supply journ for the Whitsun recess, debated the question of announcing Britain's post war aims.
the food and materials Europe would urgently need. Reuter.
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peoples a greater degree of unity FLYING
than they now enjoyed. In reach- ing out towards that unity they
hoped for British support. BY JAPAN
"No such appeal from our
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The principal speaker was Mr. Geoffrey Mander (Liberal) who himself is the author of a comprehensive plan of post-war recon- struction.
Mr.
Mander re-echoed Lord for which Europe has always the possibility Halifax's words in advocating had to fight, and which it would
of utilising the achieve with Britain's help. British
the Reuter.
Reports that the Pre- friends should go unanswered." mier of Thailand might
Commonwealth us of visit Japan are not sub-
bridge of greater world unity.' stantiated in Bangkok.
Referring
to the future Europe and to moral and mater- ial reconstruction, Mr. Eden said none should suppose e intended to return to the chaos of the old world.
Social Security
ter.
war
any
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"We ought to convince the German people we are not go- Ing to make slaves of them, as they would of us," he said, but there would be a refusal to make
peace with Hitler be- -cause it is no good "having conferences with orooks and gangsters whose worda cannot truat.”
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LORD GORT ENTERTAINS
THE GOVERNOR OF ALGE- CIRAS, GENERAL MUNOZ 'GRANDES, YESTERDAY MORN- ING RETURNED THE OFFICIAL predominated CALL PAID ON HIM ON MAY 19 BY LORD GORT, NEWLY- APPOINTED. GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTAR,
Brief Reply
This theme throughout the debate,
It is understood that while the Premier would like to go abroad for a holiday and to study condi- tions in various foreign countries, he feels he cannot leave the coun- When peace came we should try in view of the present make such relaxation of war-time financial arrangements as
situation. permita revival of international in Bangkok yesterday the Gov- would A Cabinet Minister told Reuter trade on the widest possible basis. ernment was not aware of
We should hope to see the de- proposal to send a Japanese eco- velopment of a system of inter-nomic mission to Thailand.-Reu- "The liberated
national exchange in which the countries and others will require an initial pool-
trading of goods and services ing of resources to carry them would be a general feature,
be the through this transitional period. Social security must Developments elsewhere and in first object of our domestic and the Far East, for example, will be foreign policy after the war. affected by the plan for the re- It would be our wish to work with others to provent the star- construction of Europe.
In speaking of the reconstruc- tary for Foreign Affairs), wound Salutes of 17 guns were fired vation of the post-armistice tion-of-Europe, he did-not-over-up-the debate-briefly by drawing for the arrival and departure-of period, currency disorders and look the fact that. a settlement attention to Mr. Edon's state- General Munoz Grandes, wide fluctuations in employment night affect and be affected by ment and then confined himself markèts and prices.
developments elsewhere such is, to the statement that it would Guards of honour were drawn for example, the Far East. be a very great, mistake to give up on the landing wharf and at A lasting settlement and the an impression that Britain is not Government House, where a re- internal peace of the Continent as fighting for the greatest social ception was held at which the whole was our only aim....Reu-security at home and laroughout npipal naval, military and Faiz the ter
the world as also for fr
jefnis: were present-Reuter.
We have learned our lesson of the interval between the two wars and we know that there is no escape from, the curse which has fallen on the world except by the creation and. preservation of the economic, wealth of every country mud that security which alone can
Sudden Break ? "None can foresee when the end-will-come "<but-it-is in
nature of a machine so rigid as the German to break suddenly and The Government spokesman, Mr. R. A. Butler (Under-Secre- with little warning."